Positive thoughts from a Christian Perspective

  • The High Cost of Small Things

    The High Cost of Small Things

    Headed home from a leadership conference last week, my colleagues and I stopped to get gas. As we pulled up to the pumps, a woman on the other side of the filling station laid a fuel nozzle on the ground, with it still turned on! She ran into the store, as a growing river of…

  • It’s Not the Nail: A Reflection on Leadership and Sufficient Grace

    It’s Not the Nail: A Reflection on Leadership and Sufficient Grace

    A presenter at a leadership conference I recently attended spoke about the importance of affirming communication. To illustrate, he showed a viral video of a young woman who’s telling her boyfriend she has a splitting headache. “It hurts so badly I can’t think straight,” she says to her beau, turning toward him on the couch.…

  • Snail’s Pace Toward Grace

    Snail’s Pace Toward Grace

    The TV in the waiting room of my doctor’s office shares advice for good health and well-being. One day, while I was sitting there, a commercial came on for a prescription drug that helps lower A1C levels, to prevent type 2 diabetes. The smiling actress, surrounded by people at a party said, “It’s the little…

  • Being Still

    Being Still

    “David, be still!” I heard this a lot as a kid. Usually it was my dad or two older brothers and all they wanted was for me to stop squirming and be quiet. In fact, when I was six years old one of my brothers offered to give me a dollar to be quiet for…

  • Clouds on the Mountain

    Clouds on the Mountain

    One recent morning, as we drove into the city, the top of a familiar mountain was covered by a cloud. A closer look revealed a meadow below, blanketed with winter wheat. What a contrast! This is a good picture of a Christian’s walk with God. His higher purposes are often cloaked in clouds, yet He…

  • Every Moment Counts

    Every Moment Counts

    Just as our nursing home sing-along was about to start, a lullaby played over the dining room speakers. This happens when a baby is born at the local hospital. A few of the residents looked at each other and smiled; a new life has begun. As we enter our senior years, we discover just how…

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